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Should parents be held accountable for their child’s bullying? Officials in the city of North Tonawanda in New York seem to think so.
North Tonawanda is just north of Buffalo and has a population of slightly more than 30,000. This unassuming small community in western New York is making headlines this week for instituting a new law that may be setting a precedent for New York. The law went into effect on October 1 and states that parents of minor children found to be bullying other minors in ...

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Do I say “no” too much? I didn’t think so. But after I read this mom’s experiment in Cosmopolitan, I was hyper aware every time I said “no” to my two kids. What had seemed like good parenting decisions the day before suddenly felt like I was being too strict.

I decided to try out the experiment for myself. A week of saying “yes” to everything was too much —especially since their first week of school was approaching — but I knew I could manage it for a couple of days. Indulging my kids for the...

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It sounds like something out of a nightmare: Two parents arrested in a Texas hospital while awaiting their infant's surgery. But that's exactly what happened to Irma and Oscar Sanchez in a Texas hospital earlier this year. Their crime? Living as undocumented immigrants.
Today, Isaac Enrique Sanchez is a healthy baby living with his parents and four siblings in North Brownsville, Texas. But in May, Irma and Oscar Sanchez learned their 2-month-old infant needed surgery for pyloric stenosis, a c...

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New parents, take note: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a consumer warning about using infant sleep positioners. You’ve probably seen these products in stores or online, marketed as “nests” or “anti-roll” products for infants under the age of 6 months. They sound safe, but the FDA says otherwise.
There are two common types of sleep positioners: a foam wedge used to elevate a baby’s head or a flat mat that features raised bolsters attached to each side. These positioners are m...

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YouTube sensation Isolde Fair will join the Seattle Women’s Chorus for two performances this month. You might remember Isolde from the viral song she wrote based on Hillary Clinton’s concession speech last November.
Isolde composed “To All the Little Girls” for a music theory class assignment at Sol-La Music Academy in California. The song attracted Clinton’s attention after a music video of Isolde and her female classmates performing the song was posted to YouTube on Inauguration Day in Janu...

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Seattle routinely ranks as one of the best cities to raise a family, but it's becoming harder for families to afford the increasingly high cost of living. A new report from the University of Washington highlights just how expensive living in Seattle has become: A family of four needs to earn $76,000 a year to afford to live at a basic-needs level in Seattle.
If that number sounds high, it should: It's risen 86 percent since 2001. It’s also increased at more than twice the rate of the Consumer...

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When 5-year-old Sunshine Oelfke of Ishpeming, Michigan emptied her piggy bank and started counting out her money on the living room floor, her grandmother thought the kindergartener was playing. But then Sunshine put her money in a plastic bag in her school backpack. She told her grandmother, Jackie Oelfke, that she was taking the money to school so she could buy milk for her friend Layla, who didn’t have the money to buy milk.
Jackie was touched by her granddaughter’s empathy and generosity,...

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From Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders to a murdered maid, several dozen spirits reportedly roam this historic hotel on the old Alamo grounds. Yet the supremely spooked guests insist on coming back for more....